Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2014
McAfee report on the Global Cost of Cybercrime

McAfee firm has published a new study titled The Estimating the Global Cost of Cybercrime which provides an evaluation of costs for illicit activities. McAfee issued a new report estimating the global cost of cybercrime, a lucrative industry that despite partial data could be costing the world economy as much as $575 billion annually. The Estimating the Global Cost […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2014
FireEye detected Molerats attacks on a large scale based on Xtreme RAT

FireEye Labs recently identified several new Molerats attacks based on Xtreme RAT targeting US financial institutions and European government organizations. FireEye experts between 29 April and 27 May have identified several new Molerats attacks targeting organizations across the globe. European government organizations, at least one U.S. financial institution and other private entities were hit by cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2014
TROJ_POSHCODER A ransomware uses Windows PowerShell features

Malware analysts at Trendmicro have discovered a new Ransomware malware using feature of Windows PowerShell which targeted English language users. Ransomware is one of the cyber threats that has created major problems last year, with increasing frequency cyber criminals gangs have opted for an extortion scheme to immediately monetize their efforts. Security expert have observed a surge […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2014
Soraya PoS Malware, a new start in criminal ecosystem

Security experts at Arbor Networks have discovered a new type of PoS malware called Soraya that implements memory scraping and Web forms grabbing. During 2013 security experts have discovered numerous malware targeting point-of-sale systems, BlackPOS, Dexter and vSkymmer are just some example of malicious code detected in the last 12 months. Researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2014
Gameover Zeus Botnet disrupted by multinational effort

The DoJ and the FBI announced a multinational effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet responsible for the theft of millions of dollars worldwide. The U.S. DoJ in collaboration with FBI and foreign law enforcement agencies revealed early this week a joint effort to disrupt Gameover Zeus, one of the most long-lived and dangerous botnet composed by a number […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2014
Symantec alerts on surge in Phishing for Apple ID

Symantec has released a security advisory on the increment of phishing activities for Apple ID login credentials. The Symantec security firm has published an interesting blog post to warn Apple Mobile users on the increment of phishing campaigns to steal Apple ID credentials. Cybercriminals are adopting new techniques to trick users into disclose their personal information […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2014
Fake Android WeChat app used to spread banking trojan in China

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new banking trojan, dubbed Banker.AndroidOS.Basti.a, hidden in a fake WeChat application. Cyber criminals are abusing of the brand WeChat, the popular mobile application designed by Chinese company Tencent, to arrange a malware campaign which hit Chinese users. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered that cybercriminals are using an […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2014
Extortion scheme based on ransom request hit Australian Apple Users

Cybercriminals have targeted a large number of Apple’s iCloud users with a sophisticated extortion scheme based on ransom request in Australia. The 2013 is considered the year of ransomware, the number of infections related to this kind of threat has reached levels never seen before. Cryptolocker is without doubts the most popular malware of this type, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2014
CYBERPOL Investigates Indentify theft online

CYBERPOL the International Cyber-Security Organization (ICSO)  is looking into the ID theft of personalities on social websites online that offers very little, if any protection of your identity being used by third parties. This comes after a fake Ban Ki Moon ID profile was discovered by CYBERPOL  on LinkedIn on Sunday past. During the examination, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2014
Twitter spam campaign ‘US Gov trying to shut down Bitcoin’

US Government was working on taking down Bitcoin, this is the theme of a new spam campaign via Twitter to spread malicious links. Security Experts at Malwarebytes have discovered a malicious scam spreading malicious links via Twitter. The cyber criminals behind the spam campaign are spreading malware through rogue tweets by a number of bogus Twitter accounts, they […]